All My "Giving A Crap" About Anything Is All Gone. Bye Bye. Adios. SEE YA

[Blackcat31]

Silly question, but what is a CN label? I'm on the FP (Ohio) and have never heard of it.

CN means child nutrition label. Here is the link to the USDA site that explains in detail what the requirements are for using the CN.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/default.htm

They also have an extensive list of what foods do and don't carry this label. That list can be found here: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/labels.pdf and here:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/manufacturers.pdf

HTH

[LK5kids]

I served fresh blackberries for lunch yesterday and the kids went crazy over them. Gobbled them up. Today, grapes- same thing. I knew they loved grapes but was a bit surprised about the b. berries.

I mentioned to one mom that her child loved the black berries and she said they have some at home.....that surprised me that a family would have them at home. I do make homemade meals, offer fresh fruit and frozen veggies, etc. I rarely have had trouble with kids who won't eat.

I am in the Midwest....do you think it depends where you live? Maybe families offer their kids more good old fashioned home cooking here.... I don't know.

My kids won't stop eating the fresh fruit I serve.

I do understand your frustration and why you started offering less of these types of food.

[MarinaVanessa]

Glad I'm not on the food program! I've sat with the kids and ate chips or something and they say 'I like those' 'I want some, I'm hungry' sitting in front of untouched lunches. My reply, 'Eat everything on your plate and you can have some.' Some times it works other times it doesn't. I've started giving super small portions when I know x won't it or h doesn't like that.

You can still serve chips and still be on the food program ... the only requirement is that you have to serve all of the required foods from the food groups and in the right portions in order to be able to claim the meal. So if you serve fruit, yogurt and chips you can still claim the meal ... let me rephrase that, If I serve fruit, yogurt and chips I can still claim the meal through the food program (since different areas interpret it differently) because I am still meeting the minimum requirements for the snack which is 2 of the food groups. I can serve anything else extra but I won't be covered for it, only what the food program requires.

Anything else that you serve is extra and can't be claimed through your food program but you can still claim it on your taxes (along with the meals that you already claimed for the food program).

[Evansmom]

OP this is the exact reason why I quit making meals and now require parents to pack a sack lunch. Before I did that I was throwing away so much beautiful organic and locally sourced food it made me sick and the money i wasted was shameful. So now my kids eat what I make and the other kids bring lunchables, chips and cookies and they eat it all and everyone is happy. I still serve healthy snacks but they tend to be fruit and yogurts, but not plain yogurt sweetened with honey for the DCK, they won't eat that either! Lol!

[wahmof3]

CN means child nutrition label. Here is the link to the USDA site that explains in detail what the requirements are for using the CN.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/default.htm

They also have an extensive list of what foods do and don't carry this label. That list can be found here: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/labels.pdf and here:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/manufacturers.pdf

HTH

Thanks, helps a lot!! I have been on the food program for 5 years an have never heard of this.

[MarinaVanessa]

CN means child nutrition label. Here is the link to the USDA site that explains in detail what the requirements are for using the CN.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/default.htm

They also have an extensive list of what foods do and don't carry this label. That list can be found here: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/labels.pdf and here:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/cnlabeling/manufacturers.pdf

HTH

This is a totally awesome reference to have!! Are all of these pretty much processed foods do you know? It seems like it is so it seems like it's important for someone that serves processed foods to have the CN# lists. If you do serve processed foods it's also important to take note what exactly the food counts for with your local food program sponsor. I know my food program sponsor explained to me that corn dogs for example couldn't be counted for both a meat and a bread (the breading around the corn dog) or something like that. I don't serve them so I sort of wasn't paying a lot of attention during this part . Ooops.

Thanks BC for posting. I'll be saving these links and sharing them with the members of my DC association happyface.

[E Daycare]

your back and forth with this mom is hilarious LOL.. im sure had it been me i woulda been totally stressed out by her constant trying to get her way.. you handled it like a champ.. REALLY lady? telling me you have found someone just to trick me into keeping you full time?? wow LOL

This. That showed me just the type of dishonest person she was. Did she think that I would be so depressed without her snicker muffin that Id break down and be like NO DON'T LEAVE ME HERE'S A FREE DAY?!

No.

I had my mind set and I knew shed come at me with that so I was prepared. I didn't take the few days she felt she was "giving" me to decide. As if she had a choice in the matter.

When she came back a week later telling me she couldn't find something (after having 4 whole months to look) I had to hold back laughter.

She truly needs a facility though. Someone more flexible with what she needs. What I mean by that is she needs a place she pays and they don't care if the kid is there from 6-6 all 5 days and doesn't close since she used up all her sick days and can't be home when I need to close anyways.

Things worked out great till she thought she had seniority and owned my business.

Nope and nope.

[E Daycare]

OP this is the exact reason why I quit making meals and now require parents to pack a sack lunch. Before I did that I was throwing away so much beautiful organic and locally sourced food it made me sick and the money i wasted was shameful. So now my kids eat what I make and the other kids bring lunchables, chips and cookies and they eat it all and everyone is happy. I still serve healthy snacks but they tend to be fruit and yogurts, but not plain yogurt sweetened with honey for the DCK, they won't eat that either! Lol!

The biggest thing I claim on taxes is the food. HOLY MOLEY am I dreading this years tax crap. I'm wayyyyy behind and the grocery bill is by far my worst enemy.